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The Tribeca Film Festival is catching "Saturday Night Live" fever for this year's opening night. The New York film confab will kick off its 2015 gathering on April 15 with "Live From New York!," nonfiction filmmaker Bao Nguyen's look at the long-running comedy show. The movie blends talking-head interviews with rare footage to recap the show and its cultural influence. FULL COVERAGE: Film festivals "Archival footage is interwoven with stolen moments and exclusive commentary from 'SNL' legends, journalists, hosts, crew and others influenced by the comedy giant," festival organizers said in a release. "SNL" nostalgia is in...

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The Tribeca Film Festival is catching "Saturday Night Live" fever for this year's opening night.
The New York film confab will kick off its 2015 gathering on April 15 with "Live From New York!," nonfiction filmmaker Bao Nguyen's...

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler had some solid Bill Cosby and North Korea bits, then, like “The interview’s” box office prospects, magically disappeared. Ricky Gervais tried his Andy Kaufman routine, and almost had us when he tried to re-create an Adele Dazeem...

"Happiness" (PBS, Monday). I am, as a rule, a fan of the films that make up the PBS documentary series "Independent Lens," which tend to spend intimate quality time with the kinds of people TV usually ignores for being too far off, too...

Golden Globes co-hosts and BFFs Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are set to reunite on the big screen for the upcoming Universal comedy "The Nest," according to a Showbiz 411 report.
Poehler and Fey will play adult sisters who suddenly learn that their...

"The Croods" could club its way to box-office success this weekend, as the animated caveman movie looks certain to end up No. 1.
The 3-D DreamWorks Animation film is likely to open with a solid $40 million, according to those who have seen...

It was a weekend of firsts at the box office.
The No. 1 spot went to the first cave-man family in "The Croods," and "Olympus Has Fallen" star Gerard Butler had his first strong showing at the multiplex in years.
The 3-D animated...

The Tribeca Film Festival is getting “Illmatic,” opening its annual springtime confab with “Time Is Illmatic,” a look at the influence of the classic Nas album 20 years after its release.
Directed by artist One9 and written by Erik Parker, the film...

Amy Poehler is the latest comedian/actress to be publishing a book. The as-yet-untitled memoir will be published by It Books in 2014.
Poehler will write an "illustrated, non-linear diary," according to the Associated Press. There's more from It...

There are actors who, after playing the same character for so long, simply become that character in the public's mind. After 190 episodes of being "ER's" Abby Lockhart -- first nurse, then doctor -- actress Maura Tierney is putting down...

"AVATAR" COUNTDOWN: 10 DAYS You may have heard about a little film called "Avatar" that opens Dec. 18. We're counting down the days here at Hero Complex and today we bring you a conversation with Sigourney Weaver, arguably the greatest ...

"Clash of the Titans" could be toppled on its second weekend by a couple of TV comedy stars out on the town. "Date Night," which stars Steve Carell of "The Office" and Tina Fey of "30 Rock" as a bored ...

The Kennedy Center will present its 13th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Tina Fey on Nov. 8 in Washington. Fey is the star, executive producer and a writer of "30 Rock," for which she's won almost too ...

Does Tina Fey look just a bit like Sarah Palin? You betcha. Are both women sassy brunettes who love droppinâ their vowels just for laughs? Oh, fer sure. But on Tuesday night, before a large crowd at the Kennedy Center ...